** CHINA [non]. 5990, May 3 at 0025, CRI via CUBA is just barely modulated,
presumably Spanish, likewise on // 15120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7489.87-AM, UT Tue May 3 at 0006 past 0025, WBCQ
with `From the Isle of Music`, good signal. Advance listings of each week`s
content are posted on the DXLD yg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9710, May 3 at 0015, RHC Spanish has
considerable CCI in Brazuguese, i.e. CRI, 500 kW, 269 degrees via EAST TURKISTAN
from Kashgar (and another two hours of Spanish are scheduled 0100-0300 at 294
degrees), Commies vs Commies! They are close to zero-beat, anyway (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 11615, May 2 at 2154, gospel
music sounds like it is in English, not exactly useful, since at 2156 Chinese
announcement, 2157 SZMG/KNLS jingle once and off. It`s that strange MWV service
not to China but on 325 degree beam to W Europe, and carries on well to N
America, trans-equatorially even when more northerly signals are degraded (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Some adjustments have been
made in the last week to what is still Enid`s ONLY local TV signal (despite what
some listings claim), K17JN-D, which is carrying Three Angels (Adventist)
programming on six subchannels. For months, one of the channels was dead and
another as received on my Sanyo TV, but not via the Zenith STB, had audio
suppressed with this notice, now two of them thus:
``Unsupported Audio
Codec, please contact content provider for help.``
Now as of May 2, we
find with the PSIP first, then bug ID lower right:
17-1, K17JN-D, 3ABN (their
main channel)
17-2, 3ABN-PR, Proclaim!
17-3, SmrtLfS, Smart Life Style
Television (Audio Codec notice, Sanyo)
17-4, 3ABN-ES, 3ABN Latino
(Spanish)
17-5, HopeCh1, HopeChannel
17-6, AmFacts, AFTV (Audio Codec
notice here too on Sanyo TV only)
Info button shows all of them,
including 17-1, as 480i, SD, 4:3. This is the only signal we can normally get on
rabbit ears, and with a little help from the troposphere on the exterior
antenna, can be broken up even here by 1000 kW KDOR-17 in Bartlesville some 200
km away (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA
[non]. 9965, May 2 at 1259, surprised to hear Brother HyStairical here
(especially since WRMI is AWOL from 9955), must be new frequency, S9+10. But
without any ID, cuts abruptly at 1300 to deceased Peter Sumrall introducing a
lesson from pre-deceased Lester Sumrall, but then he is cut off the air abruptly
at 1300:45*. Obviously a ragged ending to a T8WH PALAU transmission.
IIRC, TOM has been on T8WH before, as part of his WHR carriage. What
does their online sked say? It`s Angel 5 with Overcomer only at 1200-1300 daily
on 9965. (The only SW frequencies shown for this 24-hour program stream are:
9965 at 1200-1430; 9960/9975/9965/9960 at 1430-1630 for ``GOJ``, code for
Government of Japan? = the Furusato services. And 1630-1700 on 9960). You would
not think Angel 5 is Palau, since the click-on coverage map for it is Africa and
the Mideast, disinformation! HFCC, which is also degraded by disinformation, is
more truthful in this case, 318 degrees to CIRAF 43 & 44 = central and
eastern China, except the northeast - Manchuria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U A E. 13820.1305 approx., May 2 at 1240, JBA carrier. These
off-frequency ones are always intriguing. Aoki shows Radio Free Asia in Burmese
via UAE, which is notorious for frequency inaccuracy, so that`s probably it.
Aoki doesn`t show many precise frequencies but it also does have
this:
``13820.209 2120-1400 TWN * SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng Chi? 1-7``
This
userlist1 version suppresses power info, but very likely is one of those 0.1 kW
nuisance transmitters to tie up jammers, doubtful what I am getting (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1823
monitoring: Monday May 2 2330.0 broadcast on WBCQ confirmed at 2356, measured on
9329.842-CUSB. Next:
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Anomalies at WRMI, May
2-3:
9955, May 2 at 0552, is off instead of World Music instead of TOM;
clearly the case, since 9395 SonPower Radio is in at S9+20
7780, May 2 at
0557, 7780 is still off
9955, May 2 at 1259, 9955 is still off, ditto at
1413 check
6915, May 3 at 0007, still off. Not on 15560 either (Cuba is
in well on 15230, not much else on 19m or higher bands, degraded
propagation)
7780, May 3 at 0019, open carrier/dead air at S9+20 instead
of TOM
7570, May 3 at 0019, open carrier/dead air at S9+40 instead of
TOM
5765, May 3 at 0027, open carrier/dead air at S9+20 instead of
TOM
5015, May 3 at 0028, as I reach WRMI`s lowest frequency, now it`s BS
talking about the significance of May 15 (also signif to RBA, coincidence?), so
quickly check 5765, 7570 and 7780, now also BSing.
Meanwhile, other WRMI
frequencies checked with other programming were nominal: 11580, 11530, 9955,
9395, 7730, 5950, 5850 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
5050, May 3 at 0028, WWRB is on tonight even tho it`s not a weekend, gospel
huxter with extremely lo-fi audio, like a terrible phoneline? Nothing now on
3185 or 9370 from WWRBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
VATICAN [non]. 11875.00, May 2 at 1253, Russian talking about Cardinal Newman,
which strongly implies it`s Vatican Radio, and surely an FE relay. Strangely
enough, nothing listed in HFCC or Aoki, but EiBi has it: ``11875 1230-1300 CVA
Radio Vaticana R Sib /PHL-t`` --- meaning relayed by IBB Tinang, PHILIPPINES,
violating Separation of Church and State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0153 UT May 3